EFT and LGBTQ+ clients:
stress, resilience and joy
January 20th & 27th +
March 10th & 17th 2025
invite you to join us on one or both of these workshops that will explore LGBTQ+ affirmative EFT.
They will be online, via Zoom, each lasting 8 hours - 2 x 4 hours; Mondays 3-7 pm GMT (time in Britain), 8 am-12 pm MST (time in Alberta/Colorado).
Run by Robert Allan and Sandra Taylor , international EFT trainers based in England and Colorado. We have been running LGBTQ+ Centred EFT Externships and Core Skills courses since 2022
Workshop Level One/”Starting with”:
'Starting with EFT and LGBTQ+ clients – stress, resilience and joy’
This is the workshop for you if you are fairly new to working with clients who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, or queer, or any other related identity. You want to offer LGBTQ+ affirmative EFT and know there is a lot you don’t know. We invite people of all identities, cisheterosexual and LGBTQ+.
January 20th and January 27th 2025 - 3-7 pm GMT (time in Britain), 8 am-12 pm MST (time in Alberta/Colorado).
Trainers: Sandra Taylor and Robert Allan
Workshop Level Two/”Continuing with”:
‘Continuing with EFT and LGBTQ+ clients – stress, resilience and joy’
If you have at least a basic awareness – having been on the ‘starting with’ workshop or from other life and work experiences – this workshop will take you further into LGBTQ+ affirmative EFT with clients who identify as lesbian, gay, transgender, queer, or any other related identity. We invite people of all identities, LGBTQ+, and cisheterosexual.
March 10th and 17th, 2025 - 3-7 pm GMT (time in Britain), 8 am-12 pm MST (time in Alberta/Colorado).
Trainers: Robert Allan and Sandra Taylor
Note: Participants should have a minimum level of EFT training such as completion of an Externship.
Each workshop will incorporate essential self-reflection, presentations, video clips, discussion, exercises, and we will provide a handout including resources to continue your learning.
Across the 2 workshops your learning will include:
Expanding your awareness of your internalised beliefs and assumptions so that you can work on them
Developing your understanding of the impact of LGBTQ+ discrimination and oppression on emotional expression and suppression
Understanding minority stress – distal and proximal stressors, and their impact on individual and relational health and well-being
Understanding the impact of the intersectionality of sex and gender identities with other identities e.g. race, dis/ability
Understand the benefits of emotional flexibility as a stigma coping resource that contributes to resilience
Understand the importance of acknowledging and building resilience and joy with LGBTQ+ clients
Applying all of this to our understanding of the EFT cycle and working with LGBTQ+ clients in the context of their identities and lived experiences
Understand how to do an attachment history exploring sexual and gender identity(ies)
Cost: for one workshop (8 hours over 2 days)
If you book one workshop, or one at a time, the fees are:
super early bird, £125 /US$159
for bookings up to 12th September 2024 for 'Starting with...'
for bookings up to 23rd October 2024 for 'Continuing with..'
early bird £150 / US$189
for bookings up to 12th November 2024 for 'Starting with...'
for bookings up to 23rd December 2024 for 'Continuing with..'
regular £175 / US$219
To register – please complete the form here
Cost: for both workshops (16 hours over 4 days)
If you book and pay for both workshops at the same time – ‘Starting with’ and ‘Continuing with’ - you will benefit from a saving of 10%, this is £35 / $45 off the regular fee.
super early bird, £225 / $286 for bookings up to 12th September 2024
early bird £270 / US$340 for bookings up to 12th November 2024
regular £315 / US$394
Diversity and Widening Participation
We actively welcome therapists in all their diversity and recognise that being a member of one or more minority groups and / or working for minority groups may result in the cost of the course being prohibitive. We offer 25% and 50% reductions on the standard fee to those who successfully apply for one of our Widening Participation places. We invite you to click here to find out if you are eligible and how to apply.
Students on substantial therapy trainings - £40 / $50 reduction per 8 hour workshop.
We offer lower fees to those in low income countries – email us to discuss this.
We welcome donations to support us offering these reduced fee places click here for more information and to donate.
Please complete the registration form and we will invoice you.
You can pay in either
British pounds – via bank transfer or PayPal - or
US dollars via a bank account or credit card.
The trainers:
Our stance
We recognise that the words that we use to describe ourselves and others is constantly evolving, becoming ever more complex and precise as well as fluid rather than fixed.
We acknowledge the broad range of LGBTTQQIAP+ people, it is not one homogenous group.
We believe that lesbian, gay, and bi identities are inclusive of trans persons.
We recognise the impact of the intersectionality of LGBTQ+ and other minority group identities.
Our lived experience, including as lesbian and gay trainers, impact and enrich our training.
Sandra Taylor
Sandra Taylor, PhD, is an ICEEFT certified EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist based in Lancashire, England. She works in private practice and is a Co-Director of the British EFT Centre www.beftcentre.org Sandra is based in Britain and trains in Britain face to face, and online internationally - including supporting PSEFT, Poland. Along with Robert Allan, Sandra runs LGBTQ+ Centred Externships, Core Skills and continuing professional development workshops internationally.
Some of Sandra’s identities are that she is a lesbian/queer cis-gender female, white, disabled and Catholic. She co-edited with her partner ‘And GOD saw it all was very good: Catholic LGBT People in Europe Telling Their Stories’ (Esuberanza, 2015).
Sandra is an accredited member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She previously worked as Director of Relationship Counselling in a national charity, and was a Senior Lecturer providing counsellor trainer at the University of Cumbria after more than 10 years as an Occupational Therapist in a range of mental health settings including a mental health unit for deaf people.
Sandra is a warm, engaging and knowledgeable trainer who is passionate about enabling therapists to learn EFT in its simplicity and subtle complexity, with its general principles and its adjustments to affirm clients in their intersectional identities.
Robert Allan
Robert Allan, PhD, is an EFT Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist Canadian based in London, UK. He is a Senior Lecturer and programme lead for the child, adolescent, and family MA programme at University of Roehampton in London.
Robert has helped train and supervise therapists and students in Emotionally Focused Therapy across Canada, the US, and Europe. Among other identities, Robert is a gay, cis-gender male, and worked for 20 years in community based HIV, queer, and harm reduction work from the mid-1980s.
Robert’s interest in EFT extends to his research work where he has explored cultural adaptations of EFT. He is currently the co-Principal Investigator and supervised the Denver site for the first clinical trial of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT). He is also part of a research project exploring the impact of minority stress on students, faculty, and staff across five university campuses.
Robert completed his PhD at Dalhousie University, he is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Colorado, and an Approved Supervisor with the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy. He is also a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and UKCP Full Clinical Member. Robert is a warm, knowledgeable, and engaged trainer with a passion for helping people learn EFT.